The Governor of Florida, the Republican Ron DeSantis, He strongly criticized this Friday the sending to Venezuela of a delegation of senior US officials and accused the Biden Administration of “using the increase in energy prices as a pretext to legitimize” the regime of the South American country.
In a meeting at a church in Doral, a city near Miami, DeSantis charged once morest the visit to Venezuela of a delegation of high-ranking US officials, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the energy crisis created by the war.
“This Maduro regime is not a regime that one legitimizes. It is not a regime that he supports (…) So you say you don’t want to deal with Putin (the Russian president) because he is a dictator, but then don’t turn around and go to (the Venezuelan president) MatureDeSantis said at the “Expand America Energy” meeting in reference to this visit.
Governor of Florida rejects rapprochements with Venezuela
On his Facebook account, the governor wrote on a photo of the meeting held this followingnoon in Doral that the United States “has enormous energy reserves and we must expand production”, “not change the oil of one dictator for the oil of another” , narrowed down
A group of Republican congressmen from Florida, some in the midst of a re-election campaign, called on the US government this Thursday not to soften the policy towards the “dictatorship” of Nicolás Maduro by negotiating or lifting the sanctions and also requested more information on various aspects endorsed by their constituents.
José Antonio Colina, president of the Organization of Politically Persecuted Venezuelans in Exile (Veppex), has also spoken in this debate. In an interview with EFE he said that “negotiating with Nicolás Maduro is a betrayal and disrespect for Venezuelans. We have political prisoners, we have six million displaced people, we have thousands of dead and assassinated by the tyranny».
And in a letter addressed to Biden and the Secretaries of State and Energy, Anthony Blinken and Jennifer Granholm, respectively, Congressman Carlos Giménez pointed out that “by negotiating with the Maduro dictatorship, his administration is undermining foreign policy towards Venezuela and neglecting the US commitment to the Venezuelan exile community.
Gimenez’s letter is due, like DeSantis’s comments, to the recent visit to Caracas by a delegation of high-ranking US officials, led by presidential adviser Juan Gonzalez. This to meet with representatives of the Venezuelan government, which was followed by the release of two American prisoners in Venezuela.
